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Is it possible that our ancient ancestors ate better than we do today? Do we need to go back in time to find out how to be healthy! Simply answered, yes that's right. These articles document our diets of the past are actually healthier than today's.

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Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Children
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/18/2001
More than sixty years ago, a Cleveland dentist named Weston A. Price decided to embark on a series of unique investigations that would engage his attention and energies for the next ten years. Price was disturbed by what he found when he looked into the mouths of his patients. He found rampant decay, often accompanied by serious problems elsewhere in the body such as arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, intestinal complaints and chronic fatigue. But it was the dentition of younger patients that gave him most cause for concern. He observed that crowded, crooked teeth were becoming more and more common, along with what Price called “facial deformities”--overbites, narrowed faces, underdevelopment of the nose, lack of well-defined cheekbones and pinched nostrils. Such children invariably suffered from one or more complaints that sound all too familiar to mothers of the 1990s: frequent infections, allergies, anemia, asthma, poor vision, lack of coordination, fatigue and behavioral problems. Price did not believe that such “physical degeneration” was God’s plan for mankind. He was rather inclined to believe that the creator intended physical perfection for all human beings, and that children should grow up free of ailments.

Ancient Remedies in Use Today
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/19/2001
Thousands of years ago, physicians employed surprisingly sophisticated healing techniques. Now scientists from around the world are unearthing-and validating-many of those life-extending medical secrets.

Australian Aborigines - Living Off the Fat of the Land
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/19/2001
Of all the peoples visited by Weston Price during his historic research expeditions of the 1930s, none elicited as much awe as the Australian Aborigines, whom he described as “a living museum preserved from the dawn of animal life on the earth.”

Caveman Cuisine
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/21/2001
Low-fat diets, claim the pundits of medical orthodoxy, have been associated with good health and longevity throughout the globe and since the dawn of time. The research of Weston Price proves otherwise.

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by Dr. Gary Farr 7/21/2003
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How You Can Benefit from REAL Milk
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/19/2001
Pasteurization destroys enzymes, diminishes vitamin content, denatures fragile milk proteins, alters vitamin B12, and vitamin B6, kills beneficial bacteria, promotes pathogens and is associated with allergies, increased tooth decay, colic in infants, growth problems in children, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease and cancer. Calves fed pasteurized milk die before maturity. Is this enough to convince you that plain milk is not nutritious? Read all about it.

Nasty, Brutish & Short
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/21/2001
In order to believe that our society has “progressed,” we must believe first that the lives of our ancestors were indeed nasty, brutish and short. But, as study after study has confirmed, the health of traditional peoples was vastly superior to that of modern industrial man.

Out of Africa: A Study of Saharan Tribes
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/21/2001
Throughout his studies of isolated populations on native diets, Dr. Weston Price was continually struck by the contrast of native sturdiness and good health with the degeneration found in the local white populace, living off the displacing foods of modern commerce such as sugar, white flour, canned foods and condensed milk. Africa also afforded Dr. Price the opportunity to compare primitive groups composed largely of meat eaters, with those that were mostly vegetarian.

The Mediterranean Diet: Pasta or Pastrami?
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/21/2001
The Mediterranean diet is characterized by abundant plant foods (fruit, vegetables, breads, other forms of cereals, beans, nuts and seeds), fresh fruit as the typical daily dessert, olive oil as the principal source of fat, dairy products (principally cheese and yogurt) and fish and poultry consumed in low to moderate amounts, zero to four eggs consumed weekly, red meat consumed in low amounts, and wine consumed in low to moderate amounts, normally with meals.

The Paleolithic Diet and Its Modern Implications
by Dr. Gary Farr 9/15/2001
Can fifty thousand years of human evolution be wrong? What are we really "designed" to eat? Are high carbohydrate "Food Pyramid" diet standards a health disaster? What do paleolithic fossil records and ethnographic studies of 180 hunter/gatherer groups around the world suggest as the ideal human diet? Find out in nationally acclaimed author and nutritionist Robert Crahons interview with paleolithic diet expert, Professor Loren Cordain, Ph.D.